Seven bridges road

I ever tell you about this before?
There was a major project to establish a road way to Brigantine, which
would have a been a back door to Atlantic City.

Atlantic City is on a rocky shelf off the coast and it is surrounded by
expansive bays and mud flats, grass flats...

They saw a short cut from Tuckerton.
It required seven bridges to reach Brigantine, just south of Atlanatic
City and on the rocky out cropping.

The first bridges were constructed but when the reached the last bridge
it was very close to the inlet, from the ocean to the bay.Unfortunately
the engineers did not account for the tidal swooshes.
They were unable to establish the foundations for the last bridge.
Ooops.....

Today it is still there, a series of bridges form bay island to bay
island and it goes nowhere.Except through salt marsh lands.
Funny.

I bet those engineers had trouble finding work afterwards.

Today it harbors several docking/launching ramps and various marinas.
Small businesses all.

And the NJ taxpayers ate the costs I'll bet..

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:21:30 -0500, damodara@webtv.net (Twanger the
Frog) wrote:

>I ever tell you about this before?
>There was a major project to establish a road way to Brigantine, which
>would have a been a back door to Atlantic City.
>
>Atlantic City is on a rocky shelf off the coast and it is surrounded by
>expansive bays and mud flats, grass flats...
>
>They saw a short cut from Tuckerton.
>It required seven bridges to reach Brigantine, just south of Atlanatic
>City and on the rocky out cropping.
>
>The first bridges were constructed but when the reached the last bridge
>it was very close to the inlet, from the ocean to the bay.Unfortunately
>the engineers did not account for the tidal swooshes.
>They were unable to establish the foundations for the last bridge.
>Ooops.....
>
>Today it is still there, a series of bridges form bay island to bay
>island and it goes nowhere.Except through salt marsh lands.
>Funny.
>
>I bet those engineers had trouble finding work afterwards.
>
>Today it harbors several docking/launching ramps and various marinas.
>Small businesses all.
>
>
>
>


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Its humourous.

On the good side of the coin certainly simply by being there it turns
people on to the environment.
I've seen Osprey nests and Pelicans and Horseshoe crabs and etc.
Blue Flys too.
Or were they Green Flies?
Its the one that bites a horse.
YOWL!
Right through a pair of pants too.

Directly across the bay, beneath Atlantic City isthe Briggantine Nature
area set aside for migratory birds.
Who knoze what would have happened if the tidal swooshing didn't stop
the plans.

The Inlet is right there, so tidal currents can be extreme at that
location..
Some charts mark a spot where a whirl pool occurs at certain times.

The Egg Harbor inlet I think it is. Then Briggantine Wildlife Refuge,,
then sky scrapered Atlantic City. Surrounded by vast expanse of bay and
mud flats and grass islands from the mainland, while AC is perched on
the rocky upcropping.

Its all quite inspring for me.

The Road often floods over.The road across the Bay. AC can handle some
isolation now and then when a bad storm surge comes in.